† vessen.
Obsolete.
A kind of worsted fabric formerly made in Suffolk. Only in plural.
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stamin?c1225
worsted1348
monk's cloth1441
set cloth1467
vesse1483
St. Thomas worsted1518
St. Omer's worsted1530
caddis1558
cloth-rash1592
Philip and Cheyney1614
none-so-pretty1622
tammy1675
cheyneyc1680
crape1682
bunting1742
beaudoy1759
wildbore1784
Princetta?1790
Circassian1824
plain-back1830
Coburg1844
Tournai1858
Tricotine1914
1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 8 §18 The makyng of any Clothes called Vessees, Cogware, or Worstedes.
1511–12 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 7 The drapyng and makyng of such clothes, called vesses, rayes, saylynge clothes, and other clothes.
1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 11 That Vesses otherwyse called Set Clothes of dyvers Colours be made in your said Countie of Suffolk, which be made to be worne in far Countries and nat in Englond.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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